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Date: | Monday 1 January 1945 |
Time: | morning |
Type: | Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-8 |
Owner/operator: | 2./JG 1 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 739235 |
MSN: | blaue 5 + – |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Zwijnaarde, Ghent, East Flanders -
Belgium
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Twente airfield (NL) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 08:12 hrs for operation Bodenplatte. Target: B.61 Sint-Denijs-Westrem airfield.
The aircraft was damaged by a 308 'Krakowski' Squadron Spitfire Mk IX and crashed.
The pilot, Feldwebel Harrys Klints, did not survive.
Sources:
Prien/Rodeike, JG 1/11, III, s.1639; Manrho, Bodenplatte, s.278
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
18-Nov-2019 16:29 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
27-Feb-2020 05:28 |
Xindel XL |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
26-Jun-2022 21:34 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |